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Date:      Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:48:13 +0100
From:      "Ronald Klop" <ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org>
To:        "Michal 'max' Marciniak" <max@felix.fizyka.amu.edu.pl>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: upgrading 5.4 -> 6.0 without reinstalling. safe ?
Message-ID:  <op.szzwan1w8527sy@outgoing.local>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.62.0511092308160.1948@felix.fizyka.amu.edu.pl>
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On Wed, 09 Nov 2005 23:18:11 +0100, Michal 'max' Marciniak  
<max@felix.fizyka.amu.edu.pl> wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Ronald Klop wrote:
>
>>> > 7. reboot into single-usermode and verify your new kernel works
>>>
>> How do you reboot into single-usermode from remote?
>> (Rebooting isn't really the problem, working in single-usermode is.)
>>
>>
>
> /etc/ttys
>
> # If console is marked "insecure", then init will ask for the root  
> password
> # when going to single-user mode.
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-init.html#BOOT-SINGLEUSER

Yes, but I thought single-user mode doesn't have working networking, so  
how can you do remote single-user mode for upgrading your system?

-- 
  Ronald Klop
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands



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